Richard Stallman seems an unstoppable force of nature, constantly fighting for the things he believes in. And yet in a new interview he says: “I have certainly wished I had killed myself when I was born.”

Some GNOME developers have gathered in Boston for for a Python GNOME hackfest that is hosted by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. The primary goals behind the hackfest include establishing a strategy for delivering Python 3.0 compatibility for the GNOME platform and advancing the Python GObject introspection project.

The Gluon project is an open framework for creating and distributing games - supporting the flow of the idea all the way from the author to the player of the finished game using 2D graphics. After long months of hard work, the team is now very proud to announce the release and availability of the Gluon software packages.

The ODF Plugfest is a Conference whose goal is to to achieve the maximum interoperability between competing applications, platforms and technologies in the area of digital document sharing, and to promote the OpenDocument format (ODF). This is a short technical summary, primarily aimed at developers, of what happened during the first day of the conference

The Linux Foundation has announced that long-time open source contributor Collabora Ltd. has become its newest member and will contribute to the MeeGo mobile Linux platform

Linux distributions don't simply appear on mirrors and BitTorrent networks fully formed. A great deal of work goes on behind the scenes before a release sees the light of day.

Stefano Zacchiroli became the new Debian project leader! Long time package maintainer, quality assurance team member. Supporter of OCaml. Release Critical Bugs of the Week and Application Manager member. He is also gave very clear, objectively progressive goals why he is running for DPL.